How can I check AI search visibility?
1,496 checked-name appearances across 420 ChatGPT answers were recorded in our September Index on 22 September 2026. To check AI search visibility, start with that kind of answer record: a named engine, an exact question and a saved response, then count your brand under a stated rule.
What we measured
Measured. The Index method fixes ten buyer questions in each of fourteen software categories and collects three responses per engine. The ChatGPT total counts checked vendor names across those answers. Several vendors can appear in one answer, so 1,496 is not the number of successful answers out of 420.
Reasoned. For one brand, the useful numerator is the number of retained answers that name that brand, with the corresponding retained-answer base beside it. An own-domain citation needs another count: an answer can name a company without linking to its website, or cite its website without recommending it. Neither observation supplies a search ranking or a visit.
Reported. SerpApi's Overview collection documentation, read on 30 October 2026, distinguishes result status and cached results. Those fields illustrate why a tracker report needs the underlying collection receipt, rather than only the day its dashboard was opened.
What this means for you
Read the construction question. For the small-residential-builder question, the Index's ChatGPT records name Buildertrend in all three repeats and Procore in none. Changing the question to the mid-sized-general-contractor version produces three Procore appearances in three repeats. Those are two saved input/output comparisons, not evidence that Procore disappeared from ChatGPT as a whole.
Separate repeated runs from new questions. The Index's three responses to each buyer question help describe variation for that wording. Replacing the question with three flattering brand prompts changes the sample, even if the report still contains three answers. A later comparison needs the same question set before a change in the total becomes interpretable.
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- Index dataset and counting method
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Next step
Begin with a dated public-answer sample from the Free 10-question check (one engine). No email is needed; runs are limited per network and per day, and by the site's daily allowance.
For one sourced factual error, Fix one answer, $490. Retain the answer and the document that supports the correction.
Every figure comes from the published method, v1.1.
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